First of all i d like to remind that In most new pc configurations Vista cant be installed in 4gb systems. You have to uninstal 2gb and then when Windows setup is complete you can use the other 2gb.

How to Enable More Than 3.5 GB of Memory in 32-Bit Windows Vista
You’re probably wondering why I picked a number as horrible as 3.5GB? Why not 4GB? Well, there’s a really technical explanation for this but to make a long explanation short, 32-bit operating systems can only handle up to 4GB of memory. In fact, this number mayÂ vary but I stuck with 3.5 GB. Along with the RAM, you also have other memory-mapped devices such as your video cards. The memory used counts towards the 4GB virtual memory address capacity of a 32-bit operating system. But actually, the world does not end at 4,096 megabytes for 32-bit Windows Vista users anymore because the Arsgeek is here to save the day.

If you’ve accidentally bought 4GB of RAM, this may be a good idea. And I say may because many 32-bit operating systems begin to lose efficiency as they surpass the 4GB mark. For that reason, if you have less than 3GB RAM, it’s not necessarily the best idea to go out and buy some more RAM. If you want to utilize more RAM (between 8GB and 128GB), you can always switch to 64-bit Windows Vista. Alright, enough babbling. Let’s get started.

This a solution i used in many autocomplete input fields. I have implemented it to php and C# web application.
Dont be scared to use it, its really simple to use. The tutorial is fully explanatory.

Part 1: Auto Complete

Start by creating a new PHP page and placing the agent.php (Ajax Agent) file in the same directory. Open your new PHP page in an editor and start hacking away.

First create the HTML Form controls we will be using:
txtArtists = TextBox to type the ArtistName in.
matches = A SelectBox with an onclick event which will be used to send the ArtistName to the AlbumSearch method we will be creating.
txtArtistID = Hidden to hold the selected ArtistName (js cannot see the select box because it is hidden?)
htmlOutput = An empty DIV when we will be creating a list of Albums
htmlOutputTracks = An empty DIV when we will be creating a list of Tracks

Next we’ll add the first function that search for Artists by name.
GetArtist function works by taking a string parameter and uses it to search for Artists who’s name begin with it using a Regular Expression. The list of Artists are stored in an Array array and we will use a foreach loop to search the Artis Name. If we find a match we add it to a second $results array and them move on to the next item in the array. Once we have reached the end of the $Artist Array we re-sort the $results Array. Lastly we only want to return a list of Artist Name so we’ll use the array_values($results) function.

function GetArtist( $text ){
include(“dbconn.inc.php”);
$strSQL = “SELECT * FROM artists WHERE artist_name LIKE ‘$text%’”;
$db= mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser,$dbPwd);
mysql_select_db($dbName,$db);
$result = mysql_query($strSQL,$db);
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
$listArray = array();
$i=0;
while ($i<$num)
{
$artist_name = mysql_result($result,$i,“artist_name”);
$listArray&#91;$i&#93; = $artist_name;
$i++;
}
asort( $listArray );
mysql_close($db);
return $listArray;
}
&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
So far we have a form and a PHP function now we need to wire up some ajax to make this work.
There are some visibility issues with JS and the HTML Controls so the block needs to be below the form elements.
We need to create 2 JS functions to get this to work.The first function GetArtist is what we will call from our OnKey Event iun the search text box and the second function is the Callback method we will send our search results to.
In the GetArtist function we are creating a temp variable to get the letters from the search box and then we are using the agent.call function do define the PHP function, the JS Callback and the parameters we are sending.
&#91;sourcecode lang="C"&#93;
var matchList = document.getElementById(“matches”);
function GetArtist() {
var artistName = document.getElementById(‘artistName’).value;
agent.call(”,‘GetArtist’,‘GetArtist_Callback’,artistName);
}
&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
In the GetArtist_Callback we are setting the Select Box to visible and then giving it a display size which is equal to the number of items returned from the search. Then we loop over the items and add them to the select box.
&#91;sourcecode lang="C"&#93;
function GetArtist_Callback(obj) {
matchList.style.visibility = “visible”;
matchList.options.length = 0; //reset the states dropdown
matchList.size = obj.length;
for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++)
{
matchList.options&#91;matchList.options.length&#93; =new Option(obj&#91;i&#93;);
}
}
&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
And lastly we have the MatchSelected JS function which is called by the OnClick event of the SelectBox:
&#91;sourcecode lang="C"&#93;
function MatchSelected(matches) {
var artistName = document.getElementById(“artistName”);
artistName.value = matches.options&#91;matches.selectedIndex&#93;.text;
GetAlbumByArtist(artistName.value);
}
&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
We will cover this function in the next section but for now just know that it invokes the Ajax function that gets a list of Albums by the selected Artist.
If all has gone well you should be able to start typing in a name and some results should show as a select box. Once you have this part working we will move on to the second function of GetAlbumsByArtist.
<h3>Part 2: Posting Back</h3>
This next part is some very cool stuff. What we are going to do is select an item from the SelectBox which will return a list of Albums by the selected Artist. Since the list of Albums is being held in a server-side PHP Array getting the data back requires a round-trip to the server. In any normal case this is done in a Form Post which casues a page refresh but we are going to use Ajax to fire-off the server-side request for the data and avoid refreshing the page all together. The Get Albums task is made up of 2 parts: a server-side PHP function that searchs for the Albums and a client-side Ajax function that invokes the server-side function and hadles the response.The PHP function GetAlbumByArtist works like the GetArtist PHP function but instead of a regex we’ll just use a string comparison usiug the Artist Name.
function GetAlbumByArtist( $text )
{
include("dbconn.inc.php");
$strSQL = "SELECT albums.album_name FROM albums INNER JOIN artists ON
albums.artist_id = artists.artist_id where artists.artist_name = '$text'";
$db = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser,$dbPwd);
mysql_select_db($dbName,$db);
$result = mysql_query($strSQL,$db);
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
$listArray = array();
$i=0;
while ($i<$num)
{
$listArray&#91;$i&#93; = mysql_result($result,$i,"album_name");
$i++;
}
asort( $listArray );
mysql_close($db);
return array_values($listArray);
}
&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
In the FORM we created a SelectBox that has an OnClick(“MatchSelected(this)”) function defined. The MatchSelected function calls the GetAlbumByArtist and passes it the selected Artist Name. GetAlbumByArtist then invokes the agent.call method which has the Server-side PHP function defined, the client-side callback handler and the parameters we want to send to the PHP function. The agent.call has an optional first parameter of URL which can be used if your PHP code in in a seprate file.
For example:
&#91;sourcecode lang="c"&#93;
agent.call('musicSearch.php','GetAlbumByArtist','GetAlbumByArtist_Callback',val);&#91;/sourcecode&#93;
If you use a seperate PHP file you’ll need to be sure to add the following lines to the end of the file:
&#91;sourcecode lang="c"&#93;
<?php
include_once("agent.php");
$agent->init();
?>

You can see that in the link that we create has an OnClick() event defined. This will fire off another Ajax function that returns a list of Tracks for a selected Album.

What you should have now is a search box that has an Ajax Auto-Complete function which return a list of Artist and a SelectBox that has a no-post back function which returns a list of Albums.

Part 3: On Your Own

Your last task is to use the OnClick() event in the Albums list to return a list of Tracks on an Album.

Remeber this is a 2 part process.

Part 1: Define a a PHP function that search for an Array of Tracks using the Album Name.

Part 2: On the client side:
A: define a JS function that invokes the agent.call function and passes it the Album Name.
B: Define an Callback function that handles the response from the server-side PHP function and then binds it to an html control.

It’s very easy to do so you should give it a shot before peaking at the source code.

Retain scroll position after browser refresh
As Joel Spolsky points out, updating web pages by getting just the bits of information that have changed instead of refreshing the whole page is the wave of the future. Whether we’re calling web services within a client-side page or using a gmail-like JavaScript technique (darn cool), it’s going to be a major architectural shift. It’s going to be hard.

In the meantime, there is a really easy way to fix the problem of having to scroll back down to the part of the page you were using when a refresh occurred. Because ASP.NET’s post-back model forces a trip to the server for anything interesting to happen, this technique is essential if you’re using ASP.NET. However, it works just as well in Perl, PHP, JSP – whatever your server-side technology. It requires client-side JavaScript to be enabled, but so do the fancier techniques we are looking forward to.
Note that you could also just turn “smart navigation” on in ASP.NET, but I’ve had issues where smart navigation messes up other JavaScript. I prefer not to use it.
I’ve implemented an example of the technique for this post separately in PHP and ASP.NET/C#. You can see the PHP example in action or download a zip file of the ASP.NET/C# example. For both examples, I use hidden fields and client-side script. They imply an http POST, and typically you will be posting to the same page. You could make it work with GET and/or with another page, but the problem itself gets more confusing in those scenarios.

This is a solution that took me about 1 year to make it work. I proudly present the way to make php connect to an Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express in all major Win OS (XP, VISTA , Widows Server).